Document scanner

Scan documents to PDF with your phone camera

Point the camera at a page and PDF Reader finds its edges for you, flattens an off-angle shot and cleans it up — then saves every page you capture as a single PDF.

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What the PDF scanner does

  • Live page-edge detection in the camera view — Document detected
  • Perspective correction that straightens pages shot at an angle
  • Crop to Auto detect, free, original, A4, Letter or a custom ratio
  • Filters: Auto, Original, Color, Grayscale, Document and Black & white
  • Multi-page scans: add, retake, rotate and drag pages into order
  • Flash control, and Import from gallery for photos you already took
Scan to PDF camera view with the page edges detected

Step by step

How to scan a document to PDF

  1. Open Tools → Scan to PDF and allow camera access.
  2. Hold the page inside the frame. When you see Document detected, tap Capture.
  3. In Crop, check the corners (drag them if needed); in Enhance, pick a filter such as Document or Black & white.
  4. Tap Add page for the next sheet. Hold and drag thumbnails to reorder, or tap one to retake it.
  5. Tap Create PDF. All pages become one PDF, each sized to the page you scanned.

Good to know

Before you start

Good for everyday paper

A4 and Letter sheets, receipts, forms, ID cards and visiting cards.

Processed on the phone

Edge detection, correction and filters run on your device. Photos are not uploaded.

Need the words?

A scan is a picture of text. Run it through PDF to text (OCR) to copy the words out.

Questions

PDF Scanner FAQ

Does the scanner work offline?

Yes. Capturing, cropping, filtering and saving the PDF all happen on your device.

Can I scan several pages into one PDF?

Yes. Keep adding pages, reorder them by dragging, then save once — every page goes into the same PDF.

Can I make a scanned PDF searchable?

The scan itself stores pages as images. Use PDF to text to extract the words with on-device OCR, then copy, share or save them as a .txt file.

Also in the app

PDF Converter

Convert PDF to Word, Word to PDF, images to PDF, PDF to images and PDF to text with OCR — offline on your Android phone, with no upload and no account.

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PDF Tools

Merge PDF files, split by page range, compress, rotate and reorder pages, and lock or unlock PDFs with a password — all on your Android phone.

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PDF Editor

Edit PDFs on Android: add text, highlight, draw, add shapes, notes, stamps and images, and sign with a saved signature. Saved as a new PDF on your device.

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Get PDF Reader on Google Play

Reader, editor, scanner and converter in one free Android app. Requires Android 8.1 or later; supported by ads; no account needed.

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